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List: 2-Silvers

  • Empty Basket
    dusty years cover sandaled feet
    want's weaving upon head and face
    8 lines, 13 comments, on Apr 20 12:01 AM 2007. In Hope, Life, Sad, Society
  • Forbidden Dreams
    Chains of chiding on a reaching mind
    Bands of obscurity's threat pulled tight around open eyes Fetters binding ample hands and feet
    13 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 28 9:22 AM 2007. In Life, Society
  • The Displaced Stone
    Jutting out / From amidst the rolling rapids, / Whose years rush against / Its shimmering, solemn face, / / It remains / Erect, though fal
    11 lines, 8 comments, on May 6 3:04 PM 2007. In Personal, Nature
  • The Marionette
    Black and white oblivion / (cords bound around each lifeless limb ) / suspended me / in unassuming assurance / / Until, / / Grounded by
    12 lines, 2 comments, on May 11 12:46 PM 2007. In Life, Thoughts
  • The Seedling
    / thrown again into earth's fallow dust / by winter's cruel whirls of bitter treatment / -left for dead- / but watered faithful
    21 lines, 1 comment, on May 13 9:38 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Pain, Angst, Spiritual
  • Buckets
    sands of shallow promise
    shoveled in and smoothed
    to seem unsorrowed
    17 lines, 2 comments, on May 22 2:47 AM 2007. In Angst, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad
  • Picture of Loveliness
    The curve of cheek / upon its slender ivory pedestal-- / a perfect canvas for the palette of pretension. /
    8 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 2 2:49 AM 2007
  • Memories
    / In remember making dainty chains of clover flowers white / And placing them upon your head, you smiled with such delight. / / I remembe
    28 lines, 10 comments, on May 8 9:11 PM 2007. In Love, Family
  • The Tire Swing
    Hung low from elderly oaken branch / Upon the slanted slope, It waits. . . / The only seat where I can hope / to ride the wind that rushes
    7 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 22 11:46 PM 2007
  • Note to Self :
    Down in a cool, dim basement / A drawer is opened casually / As if to retrieve a needed file. / Man in white coat unzips a bag inside. / Co
    20 lines, 21 comments, on Jun 20 9:10 PM 2007. In Life, Personal, Spiritual
  • Foreshadow's Touch
    Acquaintances-- / Sultry shoulders brushing fond, as / Mystic willow branches longing-- / Sensing lovers' soon delight
    6 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 25 9:58 PM 2007
  • The Fledgling
    Chirping busily / anticipating / Mother's return, / morning's provision-- / breakfast / of worm /
    6 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 27 8:20 AM 2007
  • Esther's Song
    banquet with me / Oh, King, / and let us bring / salvation!
    3 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 9 12:19 AM 2007
  • Poison Misperceptions
    Deep in the Woods of Discontent, where shadows, masked, roam as spirits, / Ancient trees fold their claws of fear, and, doubt and meanest r
    9 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 11 9:51 AM 2007
  • My Choice!
    prompt:
    14 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 13 9:03 PM 2007
  • Country Boy's Song
    Hear those strands / plucked by lightenin’ / sendin’ flames on / wild, country air / right through my bourbon soul? / Lights me up like / t
    18 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 16 10:48 PM 2007
  • Attic Treasure
    Hope chest-- / accumulated dreams, / antiqued by time / and wanton unfulfillment
    7 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 25 9:58 PM 2007
  • Cortex Vortex
    Grapes, de-vined, / twisted, coiled / smashed beneath feet / Open head: Insert Spirit
    5 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 3 2:27 PM 2007
  • She Awakens
    Peeking out from shroud of night, / Her golden hair begins to glisten / As morning approaches / Stretching herself from darkened slumber, /
    14 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 6 3:49 PM 2007
  • Ant Hill
    A / city / constructed / by workers who / zip with thoughtless / whiz and whir forgetting / impending rain
    6 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 18 3:14 AM 2007
  • Slave to Self
    wrists bound, / hands / sewing no kindness / without gain / feet chained / walking not / where treasure's promise / isn't found / throat sh
    20 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 21 8:22 PM 2007
  • The Swagger
    Sleek, lengthy strides / black, coated wrap / hung taut on / broad, / tapered / form, disguising / delicious deft, / adept in fiery eyes / smooth in supple word / enticing, reeling me----
    18 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 24 9:32 PM 2007
  • Inexperienced Spectacles
    city streets--jungles overgrown
    with high-rise, choking vines
    21 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 4 1:32 AM 2007
  • Vedas
    when grandfather spoke of Brahman,
    wisdom dropped like finest, draped dhoti
    33 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 6 11:29 PM 2007
  • Searching Bliss
    shine's milkiness
    pours its silk
    21 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 10 10:22 PM 2007
  • The Perennial
    More lovely than the infant crocus
    Which peeps his trumpeted purple head
    13 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 17 2:42 PM 2007
  • As They Walked Toward the Door
    I noticed how
    he placed his ample hand
    17 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 11 12:09 AM 2007
  • Involuntary Closing
    Longing eyes
    and lips that ache
    11 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 28 8:03 AM 2007
  • Gift
    When forlorn in darkened heaven feeling want for more
    13 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 1 3:08 PM 2007
  • Begging Confidence
    When preying birds
    bring squawk of sallow song
    8 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 2 8:52 PM 2007
  • Early Turning-- collab with Lex-i-Con
    Upon the hill of summer's waning
    with other trees still retaining green
    52 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 30 11:03 PM 2007
  • Trails
    shadowed deep are aortic passages
    15 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 6 8:42 PM 2007
  • Throwing Out Umbrellas
    Blessings pour
    from overflow
    21 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 8 3:09 PM 2007
  • Opened Eyes
    When I awoke between the folds
    of boldest, silken slumber
    54 lines, 13 comments, on Oct 12 2:31 PM 2007
  • Meadowed Stillness
    When trouble rages meadow
    and grasses' blades are torn
    13 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 12 11:08 PM 2007
  • Cello
    alliteration/internal rhyming challenge
    52 lines, 66 comments, on Aug 29 7:02 PM 2007
  • The Chair
    Teetering
    on the creaky edge
    18 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 26 2:55 AM
  • Contingency
    With spirit-wind
    and patient shoulder
    10 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 27 8:31 PM
  • Freckles
    brilliant shafts of sunlight
    hidden behind once-blackened thunderheads
    23 lines, 24 comments, on Aug 1 8:04 PM 2007
  • Portrait Scored in Mother's Locket-collab with kaibab
    She writes her shadow
    with shimmered, morning branch,
    58 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 28 10:58 PM 2007
  • Redemption's Rain
    Outside the shade of elder sycamore
    she bent to touch the seam of garden’s barren edge
    60 lines, 21 comments, on Jan 13 2:30 PM
  • Bearing Reflection
    Coming from the edge
    of crowded, winter wood
    35 lines, 28 comments, on Jan 29 1:38 PM
  • Upon a Mountain, Bleating
    Trudging up a mountain, steep,
    Feet atop crumbling rock
    44 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 3 1:01 AM
  • Fallen Minstrel
    Luted lungs no longer praise
    6 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 10 7:03 PM
  • The Dream
    Freedom is a dream swelling in the night,
    come to men who have labored long,
    30 lines, 8 comments, on Apr 30 12:30 PM
  • Empty
    If I had known fullness . . .
    if I had trembled
    21 lines, 3 comments, on May 15 3:47 AM
  • Finding Possession
    I have wrestled in fits of sun
    with the noise of need
    45 lines, 13 comments, on Jun 13 7:06 PM
  • Real Poet
    Staring at a page, blank of all but the word “TITLE ”
    (done in practiced calligraphy) followed by three
    34 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 29 1:16 AM

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